First published at 23:03 UTC on September 20th, 2020.
(world orders review) feat. Etiene de la Boetie
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...tyranny can only be initially imposed by conquest or by deception. The conquest may be either by foreign armies or by an internal factional coup. The deception occurs in ca…
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(world orders review) feat. Etiene de la Boetie
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...tyranny can only be initially imposed by conquest or by deception. The conquest may be either by foreign armies or by an internal factional coup. The deception occurs in cases where the people, during wartime emergencies, select certain persons as dictators, thus providing the occasion for these
individuals to fasten their power permanently upon the public. Once begun, however, the maintenance of tyranny is permitted...and bolstered by the insidious throes of habit, which quickly accustom the people to enslavement.
"It is true that in the beginning men submit under constraint and by force; but those who come after them obey without regret and perform willingly what their predecessors had done because they had to. This is why men born under the yoke and then nourished and reared in slavery are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural the condition into which they are born ... the powerful influence of custom is in no respect more compelling than in this, namely, habituation to subjection. 30
Thus, humanity's natural drive for liberty is finally overpowered by the force of custom, for the reason that native endowment, no matter how good, is dissipated unless encouraged, whereas environment always shapes us in its own way, whatever that might be in spite of nature's gifts." 31
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In times when dictators the world over are falling from pressure from their own people, this book, written nearly 500 years ago, is truly the prophetic tract of our times. " - https://mises.org/library/politics-obedience-discourse-voluntary-servitude.
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Text Provided by www.mises.org
https://cdn.mises.org/Politics%20of%20Obedience.pdf
THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ETIENNE DE LA BOETIE by Murray N. Rothbard (ed.)
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